According to a new survey from online employment platform Elance, freelancers are happier working as independent professionals (61 percent) than they are as employees (11 percent), and almost all of them (90 percent) cite the ability...

According to the year-end data from companies such as Elance and oDesk , the freelance Web workforce is stronger today than it’s ever been. This is partly due to an uncertain economy that has pushed many workers into the freelance...